Because the Kerr County Produce Company hosts their shopping day for the community in a big red warehouse on wednesdays everyone has always referred to the place and event as “red barn”. These are some examples of meals made from the produce i bought from red barn.
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Sili’s Day with Mama
It was a Saturday. I had a long list of things that needed to be taken care of. The dishes needed washed. Sili hadn’t had a bath in probably a year. If i bathed her i would need to wash the sheets or she’d smell just like sweaty dog again shortly. However, the sheets had …
A Season of Peace
There’s been a series of changes on the homestead recently. Im financially independent once again. Supporting a homestead on 3.5 to 4 hours of work a day took some careful budgeting and so it meant cutting out a lot of the herbal interventions i was taking for depression and rheumatoid arthritis. Luxuries like frozen fruit, …
A Brief Cold Snap
After the driest year i can remember in my whole life we had a solid week of steady drizzle rain in the winter season. It wasn’t enough to flood anything or replenish the aquifers but it made the ground a right mess of mud for a week straight. I couldnt leash the dogs because they …
You Can Lead a Person to Logic but you Can’t Make them Think.
Directly following the incident with the sheep on the highway no visible change was made. Then one day i drove by and a herd of cows inhabited the field instead of the sheep. I thought that this meant the farmer had realized his fence wasn’t sheep tight and either sold or moved the sheep somewhere …
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The Eclipse
The first two pictures are photographs of the moon in the couple days leading up to the eclipse, right around sundown. The photographs below are a collective progression of the most recent lunar eclipse from around 3:50 am to 5:15 am. I will make one note about the behavior of the wildlife during this eclipse. …
Alden
Mid-afternoon on a Saturday, i was doing laundry at my friend’s homestead one town over when i heard the blue jays outside going absolutely mental. I thought maybe a cat had tried to climb a tree they had a nest in but as the minutes ticked on the ruckus continued. When i started seeing branches …
Life Without a Refrigerator
Eating has grown cumbersome. It is a process i no longer enjoy and quite dread. It’s more of a chore than a reprieve these days. Anytime something is cooked it must be either perfectly portioned or babysat in order to prevent bacterial growth. A baked potato takes me 1.5 hours to cook. I’ve been eating …
A Glimpse of a Migration
These guys flew right over my head, from one end of our property to the other. They were all honking at once in an excited frenzy and the noise was unmistakeable but i was too busy trying to locate them through the trees and neglected to pull out and unlock my phone until they were …
A Day of Rest
I was given the opportunity to pick up 10 hours of work at a quiet facility between friday afternoon and saturday. It was not in my plan. Resting and recuperating was in my plan. However, it was good money and a chance to see some patients that didn’t otherwise have a therapist due to unforeseen …